Osmar Bravo

Osmar Bravo Amador (born 1 November 1984 in Nueva Guinea) is an amateur boxer from Nicaragua that qualified for the 2012 Olympics at light heavyweight (81 kg).[1]

Osmar was a semi-finalist at light heavyweight at the 2012 American Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament and this finish earned him his Olympic birth.[2] Osmar became the first boxer to qualify for the Olympics from Nicaragua since Mario Romero at the 1992 Summer Olympics.[3] At the 2012 Olympic Games, he beat Montenegrin boxer Bosko Draskovic, before losing to Ukrainian Oleksander Gvozdyk.[4]

Osmar was a bronze medalist at the 2010 Central American Games.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "News". Aiba.org.
  2. ↑ "Jamaican boxers eliminated from Olympic qualifier - Sport". Jamaica Star. 10 May 2012.
  3. ↑ "News". Aiba.org.
  4. ↑ "Up to 81 kg (Light Heavy weight) men results - Boxing - London 2012 Olympics". www.olympic.org. Retrieved 2015-09-08.
  5. ↑ "2010 Central American Games - VARONIL 81KG-SEMIPESADO" (PDF). Retrieved 8 September 2015.


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